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PHMI’s Dowton appointed to chair review of Garvan Institute, a top Australian research center
The Garvan Institute of Medical Research has tapped S. Bruce Dowton, MD, PHMI Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, to lead an independent review of the Institute in order to inform its current activities and future directions. Based in New South Wales, Australia, the Institute is an internationally recognized leader in molecular, cellular, and biomedical research.
Dr. Dowton, a geneticist who served as Dean of the University of New South Wales Medical School from 1998 to 2005, heads a review panel comprised of leading scientists from major research institutions in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Their charge from the Garvan Institute is to answer several questions related to Garvan’s future directions in international medical research and provide recommendations for how the institute can best evolve to effectively contribute and compete. The review panel will examine the Institute from several angles, including organizational structure, funding sources, and business development and commercialization initiatives. The panel will also investigate how Garvan should strike a balance between basic, clinical, and translational research.
Dr. Dowton is joined on the panel by noted diabetes researcher Morris Birnbaum, an investigator with the Howard Huges Medical Institute in Philadelphia; Christopher Goodnow, who directs laboratories for immunogenomics and phenomics at the Australian National University; Jack Martin, a world authority in the fields of endocrinology, cell biology and bone diseases at the St. Vincent’s Institute in Melbourne; Remi Quirion, a renowned neuroscientist who is Scientific Director of McGill University’s Douglas Hospital Research Centre; Cleveland Clinic oncologist Derek Raghavan; and Bruce Stillman, a cancer biologist who heads the famous Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.
The Garvan Institute of Medical Research was founded as a small research department of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, a leading academic medical center. Today, the Garvan Institute it is one of Australia's largest autonomous medical research institutions, with over 400 scientists, students, and support staff. It conducts major collaborative research programs with national and international institutions, and has a diverse portfolio focused on a wide range of major diseases.
Learn more about the Garvan Institute of Medical Research by visiting its website at www.garvan.org.au.
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